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Seattle Shield: Police-Run Intel Network Loops in Amazon, Facebook, FBI, ICE
Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network run by the Seattle Police Department since 2009, quietly connects local police with Amazon, Facebook, FBI agents
SpaceX Files S-1, Setting Stage for Long-Awaited Public Offering
SpaceX has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC, the formal prospectus required before a U.S. company can sell shares to the public. The filing, lod
Vivaldi 8.0 ships Unified UI overhaul and six preset layouts
Vivaldi's 8.0 release replaces the browser's previously layered chrome with a single continuous surface the team calls Unified. Tabs, toolbars, panels, and cont
Alibaba's Qwen3.7-Max pushes into agentic territory
Alibaba's Qwen team has released Qwen3.7-Max, positioning the model as a frontier-class system built specifically for agentic workloads rather than pure chat. T
Apple wires Apple Intelligence into VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control
Apple previewed a round of accessibility updates that lean heavily on its on-device Apple Intelligence models. VoiceOver's Image Explorer and Live Recognition w
Auto-Identity-Remove: Scripted Monthly Opt-Outs Across 500+ Data Brokers
A new open-source tool automates the tedious process of removing personal information from people-search sites and data brokers. Auto-identity-remove runs on ma
CISA Contractor Exposed AWS GovCloud Keys and Internal Credentials on Public GitHub
A Nightwing contractor working for CISA maintained a public GitHub repository called 'Private-CISA' that exposed administrative credentials to three AWS GovClou
Disney quietly deletes a decade of FiveThirtyEight, redirecting archives to ABC News
Nate Silver reports that ABC News has redirected the entire FiveThirtyEight.com archive to its own homepage, wiping out roughly ten years of work produced under
Firefox 148 Disables Asm.js as Mozilla Sunsets OdinMonkey
Mozilla is retiring asm.js, the statically-typed JavaScript subset it introduced in Firefox 22 back in 2013 to run C/C++ codebases at near-native speed on the w
Forge: guardrails push an 8B local model to near-frontier reliability on agent tasks
Forge is an open-source reliability layer for self-hosted LLM tool-calling that wraps small local models in composable guardrails — rescue parsing for malformed
GitHub Probes Unauthorized Access to Internal Repositories
GitHub has disclosed it is investigating unauthorized access to some of its internal repositories. The announcement was made via the company's official X accoun
Google launches Gemini 3.5 Flash with agentic coding focus
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Flash, positioning it as a frontier-level model that matches the intelligence of larger flagship systems while running roughly 4x